Community Meeting

[1_Language_1 1671]

Lmao, I'm testing on the 28th. RIP I'll be missing the meeting.

[D4NNA 284]

No meeting in Germany?  Wir müssen die Einigkeit fördern!

[FloralHedgehog 493]

When will Heavy spades be fixed?

It's been a while since i've been able to slap some baddies on my halfling.

[Harri 4815]

Does the event team have any actual structure or goal right now? I'm going to assume not for the sake of my question and curiosities : If not, why? What are you planning to do to create an actively interacting event team? From what I've heard and seen for the longest while (from my own experience and from many other people's) is that the majority of the ET simply do one - two time random encounter events or hunts. It's good to have smaller, spur of the moment events around for sure, but why are longer, more developed group planned events being done more? Encouraging event team members to work together in groups of 3-4 can create vastly greater events and stories for people to enjoy on the server. A good example of this would be Ford and onceanda creating brilliant bounty hunting quest lines which actively change and evolve.

 

What is the focus of the Game Team currently? And I don't mean "what rule page are you rewriting", I want to know what core aspect of the server you're looking to improve is currently being worked on. Players from opposing factions can't interact with one another whatsoever these days without people breaking into fights, snide remarks, insults and arguments. Adding the long ticket times into this (unsure if this has changed much, it's been an hour+ long for the two tickets I've opened in the past week or so, one actually needing me to tell a GM over a voice channel to claim and complete my ticket, despite it being a singular command of about 20 letters), it pretty much grinds interaction to a halt on the server. If something like this is happening, then fundamentally the server must not be working.

 

Whilst the Application team seems to operating well and getting its job done, is there anything being done to actively try and bring in new players from the internet? (Advertising, Media etc) And if so, are the Application team even involved in this decision, or is it an Admin thing?

 

When are players like Wolfite, DPM and ww2buff - notorious criminals - being banned?

 

Also @Wrynn I'd recommend placing the discord link on this post for those of the community who aren't on the public discord server.

[Wendigo 786]

I've been to about 5 of these meetings in total, each time I've been somewhat disappointed in the fashion they are orchestrated but more so by the answers given to certain questions or lack thereof to some questions. For the love of god STOP being so vague in your answers and maybe you'll for once actually accomplish sating the player base and their issues.  Not targeting anyone in particular, and it's been a while since the last community meeting as far as I know so maybe it wasn't even you guys more than likely.

 

Well my questions are pretty much the same as always, but hopefully I get more thorough answers than 'We're fine' or 'Something is in the works'. Tired of the unnecessary secrecy towards the community, this isn't area 51. If you don't have anything say so. At least you recognize you don't and it's something that needs work.

 

1. What projects do you currently have or planning to have concerning or revolving around player retention?
    
2. How are donations going, how much running time do we have, have you had to dip into personal funds? On another side note, some players have mentioned bringing in independent coders to create plugins. Some of the ideas thrown around was using surplus money, imo that would be a mistake but still a possibility. Another was a gofundme of sorts run by the server. Have you looked into this, I'm honestly curious as to whether or not it's viable. I doubt it simply for the reason that professional coders are pretty expensive, but maybe we don't need professional for java/minecraft. 
    
3. We've been asking for a replacement for months concerning birds, or some rules in place regarding it. Is a plugin in the works, and if so how long? We're all very aware of the amount of time it takes for volunteer coders to make a plugin, I'm not bashing you guys we all have lives other than lotc. If one is in the works how long do you think it will take, and if it's more than a few months I'd like to see a 'patch' concerning birds as they are now. They're literally instant messages across a map and taken as such, it's a glaring problem and honestly it wouldn't surprise me if a new system/rule cut down on meta gaming/power gaming accusations. This is an issue that's been going on for months and several posts have been put up regarding it.
    
4. We got rid of the antagonist, now what? Has the ET implemented something else that's currently being rped out? I don't need specifics on this for obvious reasons. There doesn't seem to be much visible structure from an outside perspective.
    
5. Concerning the new map how many people do you have actively working on it? I'm not asking for a list of names. We've been hearing about this new map for a few months now. When's it coming out? I'm concerned when you guys announce a new map literally months away. It creates a semi-stagnant state on the server when it comes to building. Next time you'd probably be better off not announcing it and just doing an event regarding it out of the blue. We've all done several map changes and I won't go into the whole 'antag' world ending event gets old. Not announcing it you'd avoid questions like mine.
    
6. I'm concerned about the way GMs are handling modreqs. I really can't put it any other way than some of them are lazy. No I won't say names. 'Easy' modreqs get scooped up almost instantly while 'tougher' ones are either ignored blatantly or just forgotten it seems. I waited nearly an hour for one until I finally messaged two of the active duty gms. One told me he couldn't do it and to ask the other gm. The other gm didn't even bother answering my PMs. It got to the point I had to ask another gm to hop online and do it for me.  I've talked to a few other players that have had this issue as well and I asked a GM about it. Apparently some of the gms don't bother going through and learning world edit. If this is true that's about as good as an FM who can't hand out warning points. If something as integral as world edit is being missed what else is as well? If you want to talk to me further about this feel free to add me on discord. You've got me on lotcs discord. Maybe this is a fundamental problem when you have a team that lives or dies based on quotas.
    
7. I'm become extremely disappointed in the attitude towards roleplay lately. It seems like there is way too much ooc bickering and just plane outright rudeness for no apparent reason. I don't know if it's because you're competitive or what. Is anything being done concerning this, in particular the outright ooc hostility during raids? It's plain childish, and to be blunt infuriates me. I literally got called retarded on several instances simply because I missed an emote. Is there NOTHING being done about this, because it sure seems that way and it's continuing. The GMs I've seen involved treat it lackadaisically. No rules are technically being broken so why bother. Just give them a light smack on the wrist 'cut that out, and continue rp'. I'd like to see a harsher stance on this sort of behavior as its obviously become a glaring issue.
    
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   I don't know how much more clear I can make this. The community wants nexus removed as it stands now and it's been a problem for over a few years. This isn't something that just popped up recently. You guys legitimately have years of information to look back on and go through. There are tons of ideas and they've all been debated hundreds of times. So here's my question. Are you removing nexus, if not why? If you are working on something else what is it? When are we going to see the results of such labor and what exactly are you doing to improve it? Maybe I missed something or I'm being harsh, please correct me if I'm wrong.
    
9. Another thing that I think would be important is recording questions and answers for some of these questions for those of the community that can't make it. Doesn't have to be audio, just something recorded down.
    
10. Meta gaming stance, it's too light. I'll further detail this later. By being so light in meta gaming situations it's creating more hostility than solving it by hoping it'll solve itself. Cut the cancer out or radiate it, we don't pat it on the head and tell it to stop.
     
11. Can we get an online guide on obelisk and all its commands including redstone signs?
     

All I can think of atm, I'll add more if I think of any. Sorry if this feels harsh as it's not meant to be. They're just issues I feel strongly about that need resolving, some of them for a very long time. We all want a better community and we all hopefully work towards accomplishing that, even though sometimes not towards what everyone thinks is best.

[ibraheemc2000 2965]

50 minutes ago, Wendigo said:

I'm become extremely disappointed in the attitude towards roleplay lately. It seems like there is way too much ooc bickering and just plane outright rudeness for no apparent reason. I don't know if it's because you're competitive or what. Is anything being done concerning this, in particular the outright ooc hostility during raids? It's plain childish, and to be blunt infuriates me. I literally got called retarded on several instances simply because I missed an emote. Is there NOTHING being done about this, because it sure seems that way and it's continuing.

Yeah tbh i noticed this as well....sadly.....

[KeatonUnbeaten 1103]

When is 501 getting replaced?

[Wrynn 1349]

2 hours ago, Harrison said:

Also @Wrynn I'd recommend placing the discord link on this post for those of the community who aren't on the public discord server.

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Good suggestion HB, I'll add it in now c:

 

2 hours ago, Wendigo said:

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Hey Wendigo c: I see you post quite large comments like this on a lot of threads I make and to be honest I really appreciate it. You're honest and it gives me something to work off of. I'll definitely try to make sure that the questions that are given answers are answered in detail.

6 hours ago, iMattyz said:

That's my birthday : )

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If you hop on by, we'll all sing happy birthday to you c:

[Applewick 28]

Im more then likely to be **** on because of this but:

 

-Is there anything on the table to make it way harder for nations to just revive themselves and get new capitols I.E. Oren for example

[Wrynn 1349]

16 hours ago, Fawb said:

Thank you Wrynn for scheduling this at a time when those down under can attend!

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Sorry! It's hard to get a timezone that works for all the major timezones :c

16 hours ago, A Moongazer said:

Will it be recorded?

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I'll personally record it so that people who didn't attend will be able to listen to it afterwards c:

[Angmarzku 1251]

2 hours ago, Wendigo said:

Concerning the new map how many people do you have actively working on it? I'm not asking for a list of names. We've been hearing about this new map for a few months now. When's it coming out? I'm concerned when you guys announce a new map literally months away. It creates a semi-stagnant state on the server when it comes to building. Next time you'd probably be better off not announcing it and just doing an event regarding it out of the blue. We've all done several map changes and I won't go into the whole 'antag' world ending event gets old. Not announcing it you'd avoid questions like mine.

i can answer that

[PraiseTheLord 868]

What'll be done about the warclaim and 501?
 

[Sofetios 292]

Any chance my suggestion, The bard Plugin, will be worked on? it was accepted a while ago in the old plugin idea forum.

 

 

I also posted it on the Gitlab

 

https://gitlab.lordofthecraft.net/lotc-public/LotC-Tracker/issues/200

 

 

 

[mmat 7460]

4 hours ago, Wrynn said:

If you hop on by, we'll all sing happy birthday to you c:

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Nothing could put me closer to suicide

[LeoRabbit99 360]

Will we be keeping our persona hours progress in the transfer to the next map? Putting persona's nexus back to square one makes somewhat sense but taking away my bonus profession and everything else I achieved with persona hours is just ridiculous imo.